Comment on AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent
frog@beehaw.org 1 year agoThe other thing that needs to die is hoovering up all data to train AIs without the consent and compensation to the owners of the data.
Comment on AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent
frog@beehaw.org 1 year agoThe other thing that needs to die is hoovering up all data to train AIs without the consent and compensation to the owners of the data.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Cory Doctorow actually wrote a good article about this.
frog@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I remember reading that a little while back. I definitely agree that the solution isn’t extending copyright, but extending labour laws on a sector-wide basis. Because this is the ultimate problem with AI: the economic benefits are only going to a small handful, while everybody else loses out because of increased financial and employment insecurity.
So the question that comes to mind is exactly how, on a practical level, it would work to make sure that when a company scrapes data, trains and AI, and then makes billions of dollars, the thousands or millions of people who created the data all get a cut after the fact. Because particularly in the creative sector, a lot of people are freelancers who don’t have a specific employer they can go after. From a purely practical perspective, paying artists before the data is used makes sure all those freelancers get paid. Waiting until the company makes a profit, taxing it out of them, and then distributing it to artists doesn’t seem practical to me.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The point is that It’s not an activity you can force someone to pay for.
frog@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Creating same-y pieces with AI will not improve the material conditions of artists’ lives, either. All that does is drag everyone down.